Deal, Lauren E.

Areas of Interest: Lauren entered the doctoral program in Anthropology in 2014. She received her BA in anthropology from the The George Washington University. Her dissertation research examines ideas of race, indigeneity, and identity in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Specifically, it considers the politics of appropriation and the meanings of whiteness in Latin America by analyzing how Argentines of European descent engage in projects of indigenous linguistic and cultural revival. She has previously conducted research in Buenos Aires on language and music in protest, and the language of Opera pedagogy.

Status: In the field

Keywords:Linguistic Anthropology, Argentina and the Andes, Music and Sound, Whiteness, Indigeneity, Race, Appropriation